DAVID HAYES: Modern Master of American Abstraction at the Housatonic Museum of Art Housatonic Museum of Art Presents David Hayes: Modern Master of American Abstraction December 3, 2014 to February 8, 2015 HOUSATONIC MUSEUM OF ART 900 Lafayette Boulevard, Bridgeport, Connecticut www.housatonicmuseum.org Photography by Paul Mutino Exhibition organized by Robbin Zella, Director 1 Housatonic Museum of Art hosts David Hayes: Modern Master of American Abstraction in celebration of this important Connecticut sculptor whose career spanned six decades. The drawings and maquettes on view here are studies for his monumental sculptures and include the biomorphic and geometric forms that comprise his signature style. Born in Hartford, he maintained a home and studio in Coventry, CT where dozens of his sculptures are situated throughout fifty-plus acres of bucolic farm and woodlands. The influence of his mentor David Smith and his friend Alexander Calder are visible in the playful welded steel polychrome works on display in the gallery. Hayes drew his inspiration from nature, translating delicate foliage into lyrical, brightly painted industrial strength sculptures. Robbin Zella 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 DAVID HAYES BIOGRAPHY AND LISTING OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1931 Born in Hartford, Connecticut. Lived in Coventry, 1973 Juror, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Utica, New York – Connecticut. Annual Exhibition 1949–1953 University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana, A.B. Illustrated Varmint Q by Charles Boer; Chicago: Swallow 1953–1955 Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana. M.F.A. Press Studied with Robert Laurent, Alton Pickens, and David Juror, American Academy in Rome – Sculpture Smith. 1976 Sculpture for playground; Killingly, Connecticut 1955–1957 United States Navy 1977 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Massasoit Community 1958 Silvermine Guild; New Cannan, Connecticut – Sculpture College; Brockton, Massachusetts Award 1978 David Hayes: Sculptor; Channel 57 television documentary New Haven Festival of Arts; New Haven, Connecticut – Best Screen Sculpture Commission, Moriarty Brothers, Inc.; in Show Manchester, Connecticut 1959 Museum of Modern Art, New York – Recent Sculpture, 1979 Illustrated French Cooking for People Who Can’t by Julia U.S.A. Hayes; Atheneum Publishers Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York – Animal and Sculpture Commission, Lydall Corporate Headquarters; Young , part of inaugural exhibition Manchester, Connecticut Boston Arts Festival; Boston, Massachusetts – Drawing Award 1980 Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, Connecticut, for Sculpture 1960 New Haven Festival of Arts; New Haven, Connecticut – Best Juror, National Screening Committee, Institute of in Show for Sculpture International Education, for Sculpture 1961 Chicago Arts Institute; Chicago, Illinois – Logan Prize for 1981 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Hartwood Acres; Sculpture Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Post Doctoral Fulbright for study in Paris. Guggenheim 1982 Juror, National Screening Committee, Institute of Fellowship awarded and arranged to follow Fulbright. International Education, for Sculpture 1963 Represented United States at “Forma Viva” Sculpture Relief Sculpture Commission, Albertus Magnus College; New Symposium, Portoroz, Yugoslavia Haven, Connecticut 1965 National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, New York 1983 Relief Sculpture Commission, Wilbraham & Monson 1968 Return to live in the United States Academy; Wilbraham, Massachusetts 1970 Monumental Ceramic Wall Commission, Elmira College; Appointed Trustee, Hartford Art School, University of Elmira, New York Hartford; Hartford, Connecticut 1972 Appointed visiting artist, Harvard University; Cambridge, 1985 The Brooks File: David Hayes’ Sculpture Fields, Channel 3 Massachusetts WFSB; Hartford, Connecticut 13 1987 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Hartford Public Library; 1998 One-man shows at Hartford, Connecticut Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School; Windsor, Connecticut Juror, National Screening Committee, Institute of City of Stamford, Connecticut and Stamford Town Center International Education, for Sculpture Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School; Lakeville, Connecticut 1988 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Snite Museum of Art, The Appleton Museum; Ocala, Florida University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana Boca Raton Museum of Art; Boca Raton, Florida 1990 Monumental Sculpture Commission, School of Business, Stamford Center for the Arts, Rich Forum; Stamford, Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan Connecticut Welded Steel Sculpture with David Hayes, documentary film by 1999 Screen Sculpture Commission, Nicotra Group; Staten Island, Richard Byrnes New York 1991 Monumental Sculpture Commission, Anderson Gallery, One-man show at Colgate University; Hamilton, New York Buffalo, New York 2000 One-man shows at PBS Broadcast of The Sculpture of David Hayes, Sculpture at Sasaki, Sasaki & Associates; Watertown, documentary film by Richard Byrnes Massachusetts 1992 Elected Regent, University of Hartford; Hartford, Fordham University Downtown; New York Connecticut David Hayes Steel Sculptures, Denise Bibro Fine Arts Inc.; 1993 Appointed Board Member, New York Sculpture Guild New York, New York 1994 One-man show at Anderson Gallery 2001 One-man shows: Geary Design; Naples, Florida 1996 One-man shows at Lyric Theater; Stuart, Florida - Outdoor Sculpture Prudential Center; Boston Hanging Sculpture Commission, Nicotra Group; Staten Gulf Coast Art Center; Belair, Florida Island, New York The Pingry School; Martinsville, New Jersey 2002 One-man shows: Lyric Theater; Stuart, Florida - Outdoor 1997 One-man shows at Sculpture 100 Pearl Gallery; Hartford, Connecticut Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut - The Gallery, University of New Haven Small Sculptures Southern Vermont Art Center; Manchester, Vermont 2003 One-man shows: Burt Reynolds Museum, Jupiter, Florida - Gulf Coast Art Center; Belleair, Florida - Screen Sculptures Inaugural exhibition Orlando City Hall; Orlando 5 Screen Sculptures at the University of Central Florida; Hines Building; Boston Orlando, Florida Hayes Modern Gallery; Naples, Florida David Hayes Sculpture, Sculpture Garden & Studio at 14 Gidion’s, Kent, Connecticut The Irving Arts Center; Irving, Texas Group: Sculpture in the Park 2003, Rockland Center for The The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art; Laurel, Mississippi Arts; Nyack, New York Everson Art Museum; Syracuse, New York: Return to Syracuse Selections from the von Liebig Art Center Collection, The von Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware Liebig Art Center; Naples, Florida Ohio – Small Sculptures, Drawings and Outdoor Sculpture Small and Everlasting, ACA Galleries; New York, New York City of Syracuse, New York - Downtown Sculpture 2004 One-man shows: David Hayes Sculpture at Florida Albertus Magnus College; New Haven, Connecticut: David International University, Biscayne Bay Campus, Miami, Fla Hayes Outdoor Sculpture Outdoor Sculpture, James A. Michener Art Museum; 2008 David Hayes in White Plains: 62 sculptures in White Plains, Doylestown, Pennsylvania New York. Exhibition Without Walls; 40 sculptures in downtown Fort 2009 The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions At The 1959 Inaugural. Pierce, Florida Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 2005 One-man shows: 8 Vertical Motifs at the Mobile Museum of Hayes Family Show: Three Generations. White Plains Library, Art; Mobile, Alabama. White Plains, New York 12 sculptures on Oyaron Hill, Hartwick College; Oneonta, NY 2010 Art to the Avenue; Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Maquettes and Drawings, Yager Museum, Oneonta, New York Connecticut Small Sculptures and Drawings, Krasl Art Center; Saint Fathers & Daughters, The Greenwich Arts Council Presents In Joseph, Michigan The Bendheim Gallery; Greenwich, Connecticut Sculpture in Erie: installation of sculpture in downtown Erie, Boscobel, In conjuction with the CURRENT show through Pennsylvania Garrison Art Center 2006 LSU Museum of Art; Baton Rouge, Louisiana – David Hayes 2011 Sculpture at One North Broadway; White Plains, New York Sculpture Huntsville Museum of Art in conjunction with Huntsville’s Erie Art Museum Annex Gallery; Erie, Pennsylvania – Small Spaces Sculpture Trail Sculptures and Drawings David Hayes Small Sculpture, George Waters Gallery, Elmira Longview Museum of Fine Arts; Longview, Texas – David College; Elmira, New York Hayes Sculpture Sculpture at Goodwin College; East Hartford, Connecticut 2007 Awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Albertus Magnus 2012 Small sculpture, gouaches, and new Totems; Garrison Art College; New London, Connecticut Center, Garrison, New York Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida: David Hayes 20 Sculptures at Art Museum at the University of Kentucky; Sculpture Lexington, Kentucky 15 Sculptures at the WSU Downtown Art Gallery; Westfield, Art Miami New York Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery; New Massachusetts York, New York Sculptures at the Governor’s Mansion, Hartord, Connecticut David Hayes Sculpture at the Wichita Falls, Texas Museum of 2013 David Hayes Sculpture, Contemporary Art Center; Peoria, Art Illinois David Hayes Sculptures, Project Space Gallery, SUNY College David Hayes: A Sculptor of Space and Nature, Elizabeth at Oneonta; Oneonta, NY Myers Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College; Annapolis, Large and Small, Hartford Public Library Gallery; Hartford, Maryland Connecticut Hanging Screen Sculptures at the Lutz Children’s Museum; Art Hamptons Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery; Southhampton, Manchester, Connecticut New York David Hayes dies April 9, 2013 Sculptures on campus,